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HOMELESS IN BRISBANE •Unl's Financial Crisis • Civil Liberties in Qld. •Joh's Companies •Jim Cairns Interview Btjri^'Bg;^^^^ f VOU saw it . The Premier, Mr Belch-Pearson, has defended the recent raid on communes in The Premier has announced that there the Pineapple Inlet region, north of wUl be no further inquiries into aspects Cairns. In a combined State and Federal of poUce behavior in Queensland. "People Dear Semper Editors, • Dear Julianne & Jane, operation, poUce and members of the are breaking the law and must expect to armed forces wiped out pockets of re In reference to the last Semper, them- Well, i sort of Uked that critique of be punished," he claimed. "Inquiries take sistance in the area. The raid commenced ed "Paranoia rises", the article on Brisbane 4ZZZ, Perhaps, if the tendency towards too much timft and achieve nothing, with softening-up bombing, F-lll's stereo radio station 4ZZZ contained errors commercialism continues the station could except to lower poUce morale. We have flying up from Amberley for the occa of fact. One talks about a "new producer go . . . AM. nothing to hide, but it can be taken for sion. It is not yet clear whether nuclear journaUst" who produces material which There is undoubtedly a need for coherent granted that the poUce are right. Who weapons were used; Mr Belch-Peaison "titUlates without much offence" and who organisation in an ongoing radio station, could beUeve hippies and Communists?" wUl not confirm or deny this, and Com discusses "screwing and nostalgia." ZZZ However, the situation at ZZZ is not just a The National Party leader also monwealth authorities wUl make no com doesn't have a staff position called "pro station, it is an enterprise. To some extent supported the recent poUcc raids on ment. ducer journalist" and the person apparent the counterculture has to get money to schools which were believed to be the FoUowing the bombing, Army para ly referred to doesn't work for the station. gether to change things, but it must always centres for drug distribution in Queens troopers were dropped on the region and be considered that the capital is a means to land. He conceded that the shooting of ZZZ has three fuU time joumaUsts, quickly subdued the hostUe commune an ends and not an ends in itself. The pre- three teachers liad been unfortunate, but plus a number of volunteer journalists who dwellers. Several naval vessels stood off vaUing objective must remain COUNTER as one of them had been a "known radi chum out ten news buUetins a day, seg shore and flred rounds of ammunition at CULTURE and alternative, not large aud cal," some good had come of the opera ments for announcers shows, interviews etc fleeing "hippies." Mr Belch-Pearson iences at which to beam commercial mater tion. all week, and the Sunday current affairs pointed out that the authorities had ial with reformist intentions. Mr Belch-Pearson said that the pubhc show from 2 tU 5 "The Brisbane Line." burnt 3000 acres of marijuana in the area, could look forward to a more vigorous Given our Umited finances, wc arc en Peter Poynton Il was unfortunate, he added, that five approach by State and Federal authorities deavouring to increase production staff, Editors, hippies had been burnt to death in the and cited the Pineapple Inlet raid as a and are successfully slotting more and Who is the ffuckwit who insists on process, but stressed "People who break good Ulustration of "co-operative federal more poUtical/cultural/comedy material in tearing down labour collective signs? the law must expect to be punished," to programming aU the time, with any diff Six times a sign has been put on the ism." He concluded that the State had to Fifteen arrests were made following iculties arising basicaUy out of internal or clubs and socs. board advertising our meet be made safe for "decent people" and he the raid, three people were charged with ganisation problems. ings-six times the sign has been torn would not rest tUI the last vestiges of drug offences. Of the remaining 12, 4 Any groups or individuals who want Is the right on this campus so paranoid ab sociaUsm had been driven from the were charged with vagrancy, 3 with using any gripe or scandal or cause put to ah, out the growing strength of the left that it nation. obscene language and S with holding please phone us at ZZZ on 371 1459. As feels threatened when students arc advised Humphrey Jonathan poUtical views against the public interest. we arc a community radio station and rely of our meetings? In view of the mindless^ in part on community participation and violence aimed against us, the labour coll volunteer workers, we welcome suggest ective suggests to Semper editors that we ions, criticisms and help from aU who can be given free advertising for as long as our sec the benefits to Brisbane of having signs continue to be torn down.
4ZZZ, 105,7 on the FM dial. Anna McCormack. CjS*i>; Rob Cameron (Yeah, its pretty rough when you have to DICUCLE BILL (4ZZZ JournaUst) put an ad in Semper-eds.) aged and even quite elderiy people Recently Bicycle BUI had the good pedalUng around, fortune to travel overseas and visited France * • • Denmark and France. So he took the Cycle racing is very big in France, it An-GONDmONB) SGiOn9isii opportunity to study the bicycle scene is probably the most widely popular SriUC 3711879 in those two countries,. sport there. Their Tour de France, a bicycle race which takes 25 days and goes COMPETITION Denmark right around France, would compare in Denmark, like a lot of Northern Euro stature and interest with the Melbourne Who is "The man who fell to earth", pean countries is a cycUst's paradise. Two Cup in AustraUa, Paris typically sees 1 which screens at Schonell from Thurs thirds of the traffic is either bicycles or mUUon people Uning the Champs Elysees day, 30th September? pedal start mopeds (which don't require a to watch the finish. license). Almost everywhere you go there Bicycle commuting and touring on the are cycle tracks beside the roads on both other hand are no more widespread than sides. Not only that, the motor traffic in AustraUa. In fact I saw less commut is watchful and courteous to cycle traf ing cycUsts in Paris than I normaUy see in fic. Even between towns, the main roads Brisbane, Also there seem to be no cycle have cycle paths running alongside them. paths whatsoever, neither in Paris, nor So any long distance travel you do is through the French countryside. mostly on cycle paths. This is accentuat So without cycle paths I can under ed by the fact that there is also a net stand why bicycle commuting is not work of cycle paths that crisscross the popular. Because the French traffic is main island (where Copenhagen is situat chaotic and dangerous. They drive Uke ed) but don't go anywhere near roads maniacs. A car in France (or anywhere carrying motor traffic. for that matter) could easUy be classified The terrain on this main island is com as a dangerous weapon. pletely flat, there are no mountains and not even any hUls of the sort around Bris The first bicycle design bane. Consequently most of the bicycles Who was the first person to design a the Danes ride arc the heavy single speed bicycle with pedals driving a chain to the variety. The only sophisticated 10 speeds back wheel? Tlie answer might surprise •.^ you see around are racing bikes. The you since it was designed centuries be Danes ride theu- bUces quite slowly and fore, but startUngly simUar to, James '^* i .;•,!»». don't seem in a great hurry to get any Stariey's 19th century design. The answer PVw?^,'; where. Also bicycle riding is not confined wUI be pven iii the next Bicycle Bill to the young. You see a lot of middle column; so watch for it! /.•^^0A
Winners of the last Schonell comp. A. Stasiukynas, A, Robinson, J- C^riffen, L. Cameron, J, Dyer, T. Hartigan, S. Howard, M. Hayes, uiomEn for yuorriEn N, Walk. P. Crook, This is not a rave to convince people to the Women's Studies courses offered AT THE SCHONELL THIS WEEK of the oppression of women students-" by the University and people are welcome Tot 9.0O ^ PaQe2 CML LIBERTIES-WHO'LL BE NEXT? 'TTie people who are in that he is right," the person individually. It is power in Queensland are danger On the night of 31 August, aUeged that in this raid the pol ous because they do just as they 24 police, customs officers, 4 ice weren't wearing uniforms want to, they can change the law . federal"narcotics officers, black and so they didn't have any easUy, and override the tradit trackers, 1 heUcopter, 2 Ught numbers for the people at Cedar ional conventions and safeguards planes, I customs boat and the Bay to identify them by. It is at wUI. The protections inherent - patrol boat HMAS Vampire took further aUeged that the poUce in the Westminster system no part in a raid on the Cedar Bay and others involved in the raid longer apply in Queensland", settlement in far north Queens called each other by different said Mr. Derek Fielding the land, names, such as when one man chairman of the Queensland The result was the arrest was called Miiiner one minute CouncU for Civil Liberties. of twelve people, four on poss and then addressed as Smithers shortly after. This makes it diff The recent raid on the ession of marijuana and eight on icult to press charges against Cedar Bay commune and the charges of vagrancy. him. bashing of a student during a Despite claims that the pol demonstration about TEAS, and ice burnt houses, food and cloth "It is very difficult for an the Premier's subsequent over- ing, destroyed the water supply individual to charge a policeman ruUng of enquiries into the act system at the commune and in a court situation, It is also ions indicate this. chopped down fruit trees the very expensive. It would be Derek Fielding said, "In Premier, Mr, Bjeike Petersen has more beneficial to have a full AustraUa citizens don't even refused to permU an enquiry judicial enquiry into the raid, have the protection by the con into the raid to be held. because then the judge can cross stitution which is buUt into the The councU for CivU Libert examine witnesses more American system. They have to ies is currently obtaining state premier feel threatened by the rely on the goodwUi of the peo ments from people present at people who've consciously re jected the materiaUstic Ufe style ple in power, which is quest the commune during the raid, Derek FielJitn:: "authoritarian streakin &d politics" which they regard as normal and ionable." and intends to assist the people by his minister and the poUce Christian. These people vnll go they cannot communicate with "Queensland poUtics have in pressing charges against those commissioner and decided not to any lengths to try to appear younger people." - always had an authoritarian involved in the raid. to hold an enquiry uito the in to be strong, tough and wUI not The ABC television cunent streak in them, but Mr, BjeUce "If a charge is being press affairs programme. This Day To cident, no respected member of Petersen is particularly danger ed against a police officer it is brook any interference. It could the community stood up and be a generation gap thing, maybe night, screened a segment on the ous because he is so convinced necessary to be able to charge Cedar Bay raid, after sendmg said that the Premier had no journaUst Andrew Olle and a right to overrule such a decision cameraman to the Bay, which is on poUtical grounds and set a a five hour trip by boat from precedent by it. The Vice Cooktown, This received over Chancellor was in a difficult whelming public support, with situation, being involved with people phoning the ABC to see the students, so he couldn't but if they could do anything to not even any other senior acad help those Uving in the comm emic commented on it. une get back to their pre-raid "Two years ago a group of situation. aborigines at Mapoon in Cape Derek Fielding said;"The York were living on an area Cedar Bay raid had an incred which was the site of a future ible pubUc backlash, not only bauxite development, and the from the traditional agitators, poUce came in there and pro but from people who said, ceeded to born down houses and "I'm just an ordinary person, destroy the water supply. Al what can I do to help them," though that represented an ab- "Some of the people who vious infringement of civU Ub phoned me were quite fright erties, nothing was done about ened, saying things Uke, it's that either. It's as if people who lUce Germany in the thirties, or haven't got the right contacts are lUce the witch hunts of the six the only ones who are attacked teenth and seventeenth in this manner, people who One American couple who cont don't accept the Ufe style values acted me said that something of those in government. One Uke Cedar Bay couldn't happen wonders who wUl be next? in the United States, and that The discussion of civU Ub they had started a fund ini erties only works in a non-pol America to defend AustraUan itical context, where reason and • civil Uberties, rationaUy conducted debates are "But people are wondering allowed. It can't work ui an em if there is anything more last otional environment where ing they can do. I suppose that people have fixed attitudes." The new dole queue. they can vote for a different The CouncU for Civil Lib party at the next election, or erties is currently collecting if they are a member of a pol money and goods to give to the itical party they can fight to Cedar Bay residents and to help get rid of the dead wood in that pay for their legal expenses, party. The reason AustraUans and also to enable to struggle seem so apathetic is it seems for civU Uberties in Queensland so difficult to arrange any alt to contmue-"the battle has ernative. But that's the way just begun". Donations can be UNfc FINANCIAL CRISIS dictatorships start, sent to Queensland Council for Civil Liberties, PO Box 44, Uni administrative recunent opera "The recent bashing of a fe Although the total university of Queensland, St, Lucia 4067, tions equipment research and male student whUe demonstrat There is a joke currently aUocation represents a 2 per cent or by contacting Derek Fielding buUduig costs and staff salaries ing about the inadequacy of the circulating among academics at growth factor, the majority of in the Maui Library at the Uni on a ratio of about 20 to 80. TEAS aUowance was an interest Queensland University which this increase is going to be of Queensland. would be funny if it weren't absorbed by projects which the This means that if cuts of ing situation, because although Julianne Schultz so depressingly realistic in view government has already commit upwards of one mUUon doUares the premier reversed a decision of the recent reductions in ted itself to, such as implement have to be made they are Ukely such stringency is not effected in university fundint vrith prefer ing the third year courses in new to come out of the staff alloca of high unemployment, the Aca such a way as to deprive any ence being given to technical universities such as Griffith and tion. For such cuts to be met demic Staff Association deplores member of the university schools specialising in mainual Murdoch, and estabUshing a out of the staff salaries budget cuts in budgets which imply a community of their vocation trades. National Maritime School. staff numbers wUl have to de decrease m pubUc services and in Taking into account the "ui- crease. particular, a decrease in tertiary and UveUhood." The joke goes something lUce It is mevitable that the cuts cremental creep," (that is, This has caused considerabel educational services, this: A lawyer was having some wUl be met by cuts in staff increasing margins resulting from concem to the Academic Staff "2, If there is to be financial problems with his taps and so numbers. The university is incremental salary and mauiten- Association at Queensland Uni stringency within tertiary educa he caUed in a plumber to fix unable to dismiss any academio ance increases), (Queensland Uni versity and FAUSA (Federation tion in AustraUa, the Academic them. After taking 20 mmutes of the status of lecturer or versity will in effect have its of AustraUan University Staff Staff Association would deplore to repair the tap the plumber above for financial reasons^ as budget cut by more than one Associations), Professor Sir Zel the kuid of financial discrimina proferred a bUl for $85, The people in this category aJrtf mUUon dollars for 1977, man Cowan, the Vice Chancel tion against tertiary education in lawyer aghast said that he didn't appointed with permanent The AUC recommendations lor of Queensland University, in Queensland which prevaUcd even charge that much when he tenure. Hence a poUcy has been are based on stable student July sent a circular to aU the from 1953 to 1972. was seeing his cUents, The adopted of not fUUng vacancies, numbers. Paradoxically for a departments in the university "3. If there is to be financial plumber rcpUed that when he and that terms which expire will university to mauitaui its aUoc asking how they would make stringency within tertiary educa was seeing cUents he didn't not be renewed. The Education ated grant it must reach the pro cuts in their budget of 4 per cent tion in Queensland, the Acade charge so much either-which Standing Committee of the jected student load (in raw and of 10 per cent. At an extra mic Staff Association would de was why he decided to change Professorial Board is investigat figures the number of fuU-time ordinary staff meeting on July plore any financial discrimina from profession to trade, ing where staff cuts can be made students). If a university were to 30 the Staff Association passed tion against the less vocationally Funduig for universities as and is due to report to the have a significant shortfall on hs without dissent a motion that relevant study areas in favor of recommended by the AustraUan board ui October, student load its grant for the departments not reply to the more vocationaUy oriented Universities Commission and ap It is junior staff (tutors) who foUowing year would be cut circular and requested the Vice studies; and also discrimination proved by ParUament, in 1975 arc appointed on the shorter accordingly. This means that ChanceUor to withdraw the cir against pure research in favor of doUars, wUl be the same for one or two year terms and these universities cannot lower quotas cular. appUed research, 1977 as it was for 1976, Some people are Ukely to find them in order to absorb the budget On Wednesday September 8 "4, If there is lo be financial $46,012 mUlion wUl be aUocatcd selves without a job when their decrease. the staff association passed stringency within the field of to the University of Queensland terms expire. The University of Queens motions that: tertiary education, the Academic for r977-the same amount as Continued next page was received in 1976. land's budget is divided between "1, Particulariy in a period Staff Association demands that Page 3 Klew s UNI FINANCIAL CRISIS continued Mr Roger Byrom, president there be downturns in financing of the Academic Staff Associa of them. tion said: 'jThese cuts did not 'The worid wide trend in represent a carefuUy thought out English speaking countries ol educational plan. There is no course makes the position for suggestion that tutors arc less academics particularly difficult, necessary for teaching. Tutors as to a certain extent the aca represent a vital contact point demic world is based on people for students, and it is mevitable moving between campuses and that with a reduction of num between countries. With the bers of tutors teaching b univer threat of not getting another sities standards wUl deteriorate," job people are not going to Queensland University is try move even within theur own ing to implement a broader post country." graduate program but with the This wUl "deprive universities Ukely introduction of fees for of an infusion of new blood and post-graduate students, the re promising young scholars wUl be duction in the number ol denied opportunities for teach scholarships avaUable and the ing and research" as the AUC potential loss of tutoring report put it when commenting positions often fUled by these on the fact that in the past students to supplement their academic staff numbers increas income it is unUkely that such a ed by about 540 annually and program wUl develop fuUy, that beyond 1976 such increases wiU be neglible. Vocational orientation For the cuts of about 2 per The other thrust of the cent to be met, more than 2 budget accepted by parliament is per cent of the junior academic to give preference to vocational staff whose terms expire at the ly oriented education programs. end of the year are Ukely to find In the post-secondary education themselves unemployed and sector there arc universities, with few other options avaUable. colleges of advanced education Not only will this adversely and technical coUegcs with tech affect educational standards at nical coUeges being the most Queensland University, but untU ^f consistently vocationally orient the report by the Education If I could Just have your name, sir ed. Standing Committee of the pro Professor Cowan said "The fessorial board hands down its most favour universities have al decision on staffing for next ways had a vocational role, year, more than 2 per cent of producing lawyers, doctors, the 740 strong Academic Staff clergymen and the Ukc, However Association wiU not longer be universities also have to provide members of the association, Who's Minding the general education and push back Roger Byrom said: "It's a de Yes, folks, it's bash the pubUc ances to introduce. After all, the boundaries of knowledge, pressing situation and there is service time again. farmers and busmessmen don't and the importance of this rote very Uttle we can do about it The Auditor-General's report vraste money, do they? cannot be overiooked," The Academic Salaries Tribunal was tabled m Federal Pariiament However, Aboriginal Affairs Roger Byrom said "If there is has handed a report for salary last Wednesday and it contain was not PubUc Offender Number Till? no scope for pure research in increases on to parUament and ed some scathing criticism of in One, This award, ironicaUy, univenities the community wUl tliis stUl has to be approved by efficiency by the Federal PubUc went to that normaUy very The future of Defence Chief be the poorer for it, A lot oi parUament. The recommenda Service, proper department, Defence,. KUlen is less certain. The Audit pure research is done and the tions vary from about a 10 per It couldn't have come at a The revelations of waste, in or General's report may give appUcation of it foUows after cent increase for professors better tune for the Fraser efficiency and dair I say it, Malcolm a pretext for a slight wards," down to a negligible increase for Government, which is trying to hicompetance must have made cabinet reshuffle, though it The other problem with voca tutors. It has been suggested defend its cutbacks in the pubUc Jim Kitlen's moustache bristle would be rather unfau* to blame tionally oriented counes is that that the staff not accept these sector. with indignation. Among a series Jim for misdemeanors commited the methods used to determme increases, to keep on more After all, doesn't it bear out of minor maladministrative whUe he was pontificating from where the needs for skiUed staff. But staff are imder a legal what Malcolm has been saying bungles were three gems: the opposition back benches. people wUl Ue are stUl rathei contract to the universities and PoUtical ramifications aside, haphazard, given that students such a recommendation would aU along-thai there is too much 1, The Air Force spent extravagance, waste and dupU- it is a shameful thing mdeed aUocated to any such area are in have to be approved by every $900,000 on Fill parts which when pubUc funds are mishand the "pipeUne" for upwards ol individiul member of the associ cation in government spendmg. it did not receive and then left One cour, of course, suggest led to the degree revealed by the three years. As Professor Cowan ation, which is hardly Ukely. it too late to claim repayment. said on the ABC's news com some compUcity between the Auditor General. University staff can haitUy go 2, Documents accounting for mentary program "The United Auditor General and the Govern on strike because it wouldn't 534 mUUon spending on aircraft The Australian newspaper,^, States Department of Labor ment, but as there is quite reaUy affect anyone. University spare parts were lost, never one to mince words on says that by the year 2000, two enough paranoia in the last issue students aren't affected in the 3, A few more milUon matters of pubUc concem, thirds of those in kindergarten I won't suggest that. same way as secondary or prim doUars were spent on purchas summed up the feeUngs of aU today wiU be filUng jobs which The Aboriginal Affairs Dei ary students are by strikes, and ing 30,000 anti tank rockets right thinkuig citizens when it do not yet exist." partment came in for some flak from Norway which proved to said in an editorial on September we would be obliged to pass as it did last year. It appears be defective. The defects were 17, "Busmesses which tried to everyone, even if we went on they spent more than $400,000 not the fault of the manufac run their affairs as some public Luxury commodity strike for more than two finding out that a hovercraft was turers though as the rockets service departments are doing Tertiary education and parti months. If the situation got not suitable for the Torres were built according to Defence would be bankrupted and prob cularly university education is reaUy desperate AustraUan acad Strait, department specifications, which ably prosecuted too. We, as now being viewed as a luxy by emics could do what academics incorporated the defects, workers, spend much of our the community and the govern did in Britain recently and with WeU if they're gomg to waste week laboring to provide the tax ment. Roger Byrom said, "it's hold student results at the end of the year. This would affect that sort of money how can you AU these examples of mis to keep the public sector going.^ a part of a trend throughout the blame Malcolm for choppmg the whole community, because management arc hardly Ukely to What this report suggests is that western world, Fundmg for uni S33 million from theh' budget we are also working hard to pay people depend on .students' result in a reduction in defence versities, particulariy in the allocation. for scandalous inefficiency the results when it comes to employ spending though. On the con USA, the UK have been cut nation cannot possibly afford." dramaticaUy, In times of econ ment. But theh again with such trary, Defence is one depart high unemployment it is possible Especially when there are Malcolm would no doubt omic stress if universities aren't ment that can look forward to that even this would not have superphosphate bounties to have concurred. seen to be doing anything in increased aUocations in the such a great affect," bring back and investment aUow future. Steven Velm particular it is inevitable that Julianne Schultz For 0 start, we'U pay you a The Undergraduate Scheme r—-_-~ ^ good salary to stay exactly If you're in third, fourth or "where you are and graduate. final year dentistry and can larmyy Then we'll expect you to satisfy our nationality renuire- return the favour and spend mcnts, fill in the coupon, phone, some time helping us. or drop in and see us. We will ir force In fact, n period of time spent The Director-General of show you how we can assist you Recruiting, GPO Box XYZ OS a dentist with us is not as to complete your studies. Our painful as you probably think it Undergraduate Scheme will Your State Capital City. IS, You might even enjoy it. And cover most of your major ex (Please include postcode.) you'll certainly learn a lot. penses and pay you a salary and Please send me details of As a dentist in the Army or allowances for the remainder Dental Careers in the the Air Force, you are an officer of your course. Army D Air'Force • which gives you many privileges For further information, please and benefits. You will be paid a good salary and have the send the coupon or phone: I Name. opportunity to see new places. Adelaide 223 2891 You will acquire experience in Brisbane 311031 I • preventive and clinical den Canberra 47 6530 Address, tistry to a very high standard. Hobart 34 7077 You will work witn a compre Melbourne 613731 hensive range pf modern and Perth 22 4355 I-- , advanced dental equipment. Sydney 212 lOU You will meet professionals I from other fields. And enjoy a and ask to speak to the Dental I Postcode Careers Officer of the service of tioclal life and camaraderie that L ^ — —. __AAPOf 25-2M,66 \ If you're a dental, undei^raduate, joining is unique. your choice. the Army or the wr Force wont hurtabit. AuttMdsed by Dlrector-GeiMrat ot Rmuillng, Depl. of Ottence Page 4 THERANCER NQUPy Tlie Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry is about to make public its first report. Some people seem to be relying on the inquiry to provide the Australian people with a magical answer to the growing controversy surrounding the proposed mining and export- of uranium. But that is not the proper role of such an Inquiry. Presiding Commissioner Fox has said: "The obvious intention [of the inquiry] is to enable the public to become informed, not as to our recommendations so much, but as to the facts which we find Tlie members ofthe public being informed can use political infiuence as they like to briiig about the desired results," After aU, no three men, throughout the proceedings of that throughout its proceedings however able, knowledgable or the Inquiry one gained the dis the inquiry has operated against conscientious, have the compe tinct impression that the Com a background of frantic poUti tence or the authority to decide mission was more interested cal manoeuvring by the Austra on behalf of a whole nation an with questions of management Uan Government, some State issue which is bound to have the and marketing rather than with governments, statutory bodies, most far-reaching impUcations the wider issues. According to mining and other private inter for the global environment, for the Commission, ", , , financial ests, aU acting in coUusion with human values, indeed, for the arrangements for the develop the purpose of preempting the WARNIHp: survival of the human race. The ment of the mining and the findings of the inquiry. Only a nuclear debate, which has led to marketing of the uranium were union ban has so far prevented URANIUM MINING the most profound soulsearching fundamental matters" for the the export of uranium. Not only in the scientific and technologi inquiry. As though these com have hearings of mining leases cal community and is currently mercial considerations were continued, but proposals have IS HAZARDOUS troubling the conscience of an more fundamental than concern been advanced at the highest increasing body of pubUc for the global environment, level for the cstabUshmcnt of an TO YOUR HEALTH opinion throughout the Western nuclear weapon proliferation, enrichment plant and storage in worid, obviously deserves the erosion of civU Uberties, or AustraUa of the highly toxic YOUR GOVEBIUMIIIT WANTS tOU TO SE AW/>RE Of THE OANOERS Of SMOKING attention and active participa Aboriginal rights. wastes. so IT REOUIHES THAT A WAnSINC COME WITH THE f RODUCI, tion of every Australian citizen. This attitude was further em In the last few months, VOUR COVERRHENT DOES HOT «ANT YOU TO BE AWARE OF THE DANCERS Needless to say there are a phasised m an advice sheet to hordes of senior company execu- OF URANIUM MINIKC, ITS THE COVERNMENTSfRODUCT. great many powerful poUtical witnesses in which it was said continued next page . and economic interests in Aus that the Commission ". . . does traUa and overseas which would not need assistance on general Uke to stifle this debate. For questions of political, social or they are a(raid that too much moral phUosophy. A witness JOHANDTHE pubUc discussion of the costs may briefly express his [sici and hazards of nuclear power views on these matters, if rele might prejudice the future of the vant." Indeed, Justice Fox went nuclear industry and the pros so far as to suggest that the Is there an international pect of high profits from urani Commission must ". , , work uranium price fixing cartel and um exports. within the bounds of practi docs the Queensland Premier cality" and "One has, in relation have any connections with it? URANIUM CARTEll The recent survey of pubUc opinion whose results were pub- to some of these matters, tocurb These are questions Ukely to be Ushed in the Age on July 29 and ideologically asnwered more fuUy in coming Joh Bjelke-Petersen has ing aUeged uranium price fixing. 31 provides dramatic evidence of because that, we weeks foUowing partial revela 21,000 shares in OUmin, OUmin One of the official purposes of the widespread fears and an know from experience, is an tions in sections of the Austra has a number of umaium explor the Canberra meeting was to dis xieties shared by a large majority abstraction: It is nothing we can lian media. ation licenses in the Lake cuss ways and means of ensuring of the AustraUan people. What bring about, , . ," But what Reports from the United Fromme area of South AustraUa, an adequate price for uranium iri better way to suppress such could be a greater ideological States suggest three inquiries From OUmin's uiterim report for order to attract sufficient uivest- fears and doubts than by claim abstraction than the irrational under way into an alleged 1976, its started another explor ment to the mdustry. ing that the matter has been gamble for a plutonium econ uranium club, a group of worid ation field in Beveriy is shaping Another link between OUmm defmitely resolved by the judge omy advocated by the nuclear wide uranium producers, and up weU, Uranium oxides in the and an American interest exists ment of three "impartial ex proponents? they involve companies in which project are put at a reserve level through its largest shareholder. perts?" Indicative of this type of In any case, any attempt to Joh Bjelke-Petersen and business of 35 mUUon pounds with a Artesian Basin OU, a company thinking has been the press treat the purely local or immedi partner BUl SUler are involved, high average ore grade of 5.3 long ago owned by the interests attack on the 24 hour national ate aspects of uranium mining as A Federal grand jury has been pounds a ton, of Joh Bjeike Petersen, The railway strike and the attempt to more important than the global settmg in Washington behuid BUl SUler is now chairman of 1975 company files show the dismiss the whole environmental dimensions of nuclear power is, closed doors since July and is OUmin, He is on the manage directors of Artesian Basin as argument by claiming that the in fact, incompatible with the believed to be extending its ment committee of the National BUl SUler and Joh's wife, working people of the country need for maximum pubUc probe on the basis of AustraUan Party and unsuccessfyUy stood Florence Bjelke-Petersen, Neariy have no right to strike on participation in an open and connections, Subpconas are be as a candidate for the National half of Artesian's shares are matters not directly related to wideranging debate. Presumably lieved to have been issued to two Party a few years ago in a Bris owned by Bjeike Petersen, wages and conditions. It is un the intention of the Environ American Corporations which bane metropolitan seat, There is a lot of un proven doubtedly the strategy of the ment Protection (Impact of Pro have umaium interests in Austra A meeting in Canberra in connections in this whole urani present AustraUan government, posal) Act passed by the Labor Ua, namely Phelps Dodge and 1972 mvolved two representat um price fixing deal, and much the major mining interests and Government is that the environ Getty OU, ives from Exoil, as the company more is Ukely to be revealed in signlHcant sections of the media ment should be understood in its There's also a joint congres was then known. Representa coming weeks. Whether Premier to force AustraUans into accept widest sense. The Act de/mes sional committee on nuclear tives of the Federal Government Joh becomes embroUed in ing the Ranger Inquiry as a energy and a Senate committee were in attendance and it has scandal and conflict with the "environment" as "aU aspects of substitute for a sustained nation on multinationals who are inter been suggested that Mr Siller will American Government remains the surroundings of man, [sic] wide discussion of the issues. ested m Australian connections. be subpeonead to appear before to be seen. whether affecting him [sic] as Tlie American corporation an American inquiry investigat It is true that the Ranger an individual or in his [sic] Phelps Dodge has as one of its Inquiry has received a large num social grouping." In this context subsidiaries Western Uranium ber of submissions outlining the man can only mean the entire environmental, social, poUtical human race. 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After a nation Meanwhile, the inquiry itself wide discussion on energy, a poll has involved on the one hand a showed that 54 per cent oppos ROBERT CAMERON AND David-like coalition of conserva ed nuclear power development He Keeps MARIAN WILKINSON tionists, concerned scientists, and only 34 per cent were in Nation Review church and community workers favor. Fir its part, Norway has on a shoestring budget, and on The issue of members of parliament pining profit under the office of the crown has rejected nuclear power. In Cana- the Goliath side big-spending day, the Conservative opposition always been contentious and legally undefined. For sure Joh Bjelke-Petersen knows mining companies and govern party is now opposed to the what it's all about, and wouldn't be silly enough to leave himself open to the possibilities ment representatives identifying export of any nuclear materials of political scandal. Or would he? with corporate interests. or facilities. In Califonria, in The Australian Atomic Ener spite of an overwhelming cam gy Commission (AAEC), a statu Nema Holdings Ltd is a large paign by the media and govern A glance through the com ber of firms in which the premi tory body funded from the pub ment in favor of nuclear power, buUding and construction com panies office shows that premier er is also interested, including lic purse and presumably en pany formed on December 12 ons-thifd of the people put Bjelke-Petersen has a large in Oilmin, Transoil, Highland Gold trusted with the responsibility of themselves on the side of the last year through a merger of direct share in Nema, Joh owns Development, Artesian Basin safeguarding the interests of Nema Constructions Pty Ltd and anti-nuclear movement. In ' 1,000 shares in Oilmin in his Oil, Petromin, Oil Drilling and Australians, has consistently sup Western Japan and the United Highiland Gold Development NL, own name and Oilmin owns "a Exploration Ltd. ported the mining and opposed the latter being connected to the substantial 140,000 shares in the efforts of environmentally- premier via the weU-known oU Nema Holdings. A company in States, where certain localities Earlier this year State cabinet minded witnesses. The growing have been proposed as sites for exploration company Oilmin which Joh owns over half the decided to let a greater propor doubts among some of the most NL. Nema has a finger in many nuclear installations, people have shares. Artesian Basin OU, owns tion than usual of State govern reputable scientists about the areas of the buUding industry blockaded or occupied the sites. a million shares in OUmin, ment contracts out to private wisdom of proceeding with and can proudly boast that Another connection can be The time has now come for enterprise. This meant that the nuclear power were not reflect the Australian people to join this eight of its last 12 contracts found via TransoU, in which ed in the virtually unqualified have been government or semi- State works department was international debate. We must the premier has a large interest, receiving less work and this pro-nuclear positions of the government jobs. These include: TransoU owns 60,000 shares in press the government for the resulted in many hundreds of scientists from the AAEC. While necessary facilities and resources building workers being retrench the pro-nuclear case was given to be made available so all ed. It came as a surprise to the much generous support through sections of the community may Building Workers Industrial the AAEC and other agencies, assess the global environmental, Union to find that so many of the anti-nuclear coalition has social, economic and, ultimately, these new contracts were being had to rely almost entirely on ethical questions raised by the won by Nema Holdings; even voluntary effort to prepare its issue. Needless to say, whUe such Brisbane businessmen have won submissions and keep a watch a debate is going on all uranium NO PARKING! dered why. The militant BWIU ing brief in four capitals should be left in the ground. For had little bargaming power. throughout 10 months of the onus of proof clearly lies on IH GATf WAY hearings. those who advocate a path ANYTIME When a BWIU official made strewn with danger and uncer public statements about Nema The democratic process must be tainty. Any government decision Holdings premier Joh was ap allowed lo work which pre-empts the outcome of proached by the press. He curtly Irrespective of the nature of such a debate is in flagrant told the media to go and check violation of the democratic pro the share registries themselves, its recommendations, the inqui PTY. LTD. ry will prove useful only in so cess. For any group or individual and bandied around his classical not to insist on the right to be "If I tell you that, you'll be as far as its report gives rise to an extensive educational program. part of this process is to abdi P.B0X53DARRA.QLD. wise as I am, and I'm not going cate all moral responsibility, to make you as wise as I am" Justice Fox has said, "under this REG. NO 3578 Act we're obliged to make the NOMINEE- type answer. MAUM , W.A. STOCKWELL REG. NO-3576 •Service Training Centre Nema and 201,000 shares in (State works dept) $1,750,000, Oilmin. •Renovations to administra Many journalists have come tion buildings (State works dept) across the name BiU Siller when $1,668,000, searching files of companies in •Royal Brisbane Women's which premier Joh is suspected hospital (North Brisbane hospit of having an interest, Messrs als board) S1,400,000, Siller and Bjelke-Petersen have •Administration (Harbors oeen busuiess partners for over and marines dept) $686,000, two decades and have had many •Royal Brisbane hospital business dealings together. Siller school (North Brisbane hospital is an executive member of the board) $676,000, National Party and stood un •Kedron high school science successfully as an election can block (State works dept) $622,- didate for the Nationals in a 000, metropolitan seat a few years Coorparoo state high school ago. Siller is a director of Nema If you're a medical undergraduate, (State works dept) $456,000. 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For further information, please (Tick Preference), When you join us ns n doctor send the coupon or phone: you will Iw nn officer'which (jives Adcliiide 2232891 . I Name ' SPECIAL TENT HIRE SERVICE. you many privilcfica and liencfiis. Brisbone 311031 You'll be well paid and you'll en Canbcrrn (Novy) 65 3318 joy a social life that is second tn Cnnbcrni (Army I Addrcs.s_ 1 none. Plenty of .sport if you want Page? BRISBANE'^ do these jobs, A roster system was tried we have to do it gradually, (And the among the people who used the centre, newsletter is really not written entirely €S k but not everyone was reliable and there by Joyce Stephens, I saw a letter from was no consistency in the faces at the "Bluey" which is going in the next issue its OK to be a bum door. So that system didn't work. They about a concert the Divine Light mission then found a man, a cook who was on the had put on for them, "They played If you started adding up the number The 139 Club Drop^n Centre opened dole, who stayed on as caretaker for Danny Boy you see and that really got to of people turned away each night from last September, During the last year it three months. But he kept getting job 'Bluey.*") the various hostels which offer tempor has provided a much needed place for offers and turning them down because he It's been nearly a year now since the ary accommodation in Brisbane you many homeless people to go during the was contemed about the club. Eventually club opened. Soon they are holding an would discover that there are probably day. Instead of walking the streets or he was thrown off the dole, so he had to anniversary dinner where all members can 400 to 600 people sleeping in Brisbane's going to the parks, as many as 80 or 90 leave the club to take a job to support go free. "But well be printing tickets at parks, old sheds, warehouses , . , any people a day now go to the club to pass himself. The 139 Club is concerned that $5 each for all the rich people who want where out of sight. That, at least, is the the time. this system cannot go on because it is to come along," Joyce laughs "We've estimate that Doug Schwede, manager of exploitative. People do their work and are done that quite deliberately-to set up a St Vincent de Pauls, comes up with. Political awareness not gettuig paid. Moves are now being situation where these people have to But that's a conservative number. Other drop-in centres around Aus taken to get the salary for a caretaker mingle. One thing that really incapacit Homeless people don't get counted in the tralia are run with salaried staff (employ from one of the social services. ates them is their own inability to handle census, A more realistic figure, going on a ing social welfare officers etc). The social interaction. They have very poorly 1973 survey, rates the number of home government would, under the Homeless A unique newsletter developed social skills and very impover less people in Brisbane at about 1500- Persons Assistance Act, fund SO per cent The 139 Club has a newsletter. This is ished opportunities to develop them," mainly out of sight and therefore out of of the salary of a full time social worker also quite unique among the Drop-in One person suggested that if outsiders mind. at the 139 Oub, But they decided not to centres in Australia. The first one, put were invited the club members would be Skid row in Australia is unlike that of go in that direction, getting tied up in out in July, reads "Do you have anything too intimidated and would not come, American cities in which the "down-and- the games of executive committees, sub to say? Say it in you? newsletter. News, "Well, if that happens," said Joyce, committees, sub-sub-committees and so outers" tend to congregate in recognis suggestions, stories about being on the "We'll just have to forget about the rich on. "What happens then," said Stephens, able areas. The Australian "bum" has no road, . ." The point is that the letter is people and their money." But as 27 "is that the actual members of the club place that is, in a sense, his or her own so put out by the people using the place and signatures of club members appeared on there is no sense of group identity among become removed from the decision mak incorporates experiences with which the dinner list the first day it was put up I them as there is In parts of northern ing process. Most of these people are not those people can relate. wonder if it might not be the rich people America, There is only a feeling of going to change, don't want to change, The first newsletter was not very who will be intimidated. estrangement and alienation from the rest don't have the back up, resources or "political" except for one paragraph But, of course, wherever there's hope of society. anything to change," at the end. It reads: there's pressure somewhere from thQ Loneliness and boredom are constant What the Club is hoping to achieve is "Recently a local paper had an article authorities to bring you down. And companions of those who spend then* day rehabilitation in a broad sense-namely called Tasty Waste' which told of a man there has been a great deal of pressure on watching the pigeons fly about the city the development of a person's own skills brought before a magistrate. The man had the 139 Club to move out. The landlord hall clock tower. Alcohol might help to to the extent where one has greater con been picked up by the police after they did not renew the lease and sent a notice pass some time; and so Wednesday, trol over one's own life. Basic decisions found him eating prawns from a rubbish to the effect that they must leave by Social Security Day, is an excellent day required from club members at their bin. He pointed out that people were May, Last May, that is: They're just to go to the pub. weekly business meeting is an initial wasting a great deal of food by throwing' staying put, — , attempt to get people involved and, in a Unfortunately I went to the 139 Club it away. The magistrage jailed him for There are 1500 homeless people in small way, getting out of the dependency on a Wednesday so there weren't many three months. Makes you wonder, doesn't Brisbane, But never mind-mainly out of most of them feel after being shuffled people there. On any other day the place it?" sight and mainly out of mind. The 139 is crowded. The 139 Club, in Chariotte around from one organisation to another "In the next newsletter I want to take Club vnJl probably not be moved out of Street, is unique in Australia, Although for years. It becomes a way of life; a way an extract from Orwell's Down and Out their premises for a while because it is the building is officially owned by the of basicaUy letting the world act upon in Paris and London and reprint some of likely to draw the attention of the Queensland Council of Social Services, you. the songs from the IWW songbook" Ms media. And the government doesn't the club is not controlled by either a "Homeless people are a group who are Stephens said, "We want to interject want that. It is, after all, a rather em fiovernment department or a voluntary ab.«'olutely powerlessj^Stephens said. "In more and more political statements but barrassing "problem," organisation. It is run by the homeless the long run I envisage some kind of poli JANE CAMENS people who use it. It is a small territory tical awareness to their own victimisation they call their own. Minimal privacy even if its just on the small scale of be where they are noT going to be harassed coming aware of theu: rights." by the police, After allowing for the frequency of Joyce Stephens, tutor in Sociology at police bashing in Queensland there is a Queensland Uni, has worked with the 139 bulk of evidence pointing to the ill- Club for a couple of months of the year treatment of homeless persons. Many say that it has been open. She says that if that the danger of sleeping in the parks homeless people are found in the Botanic around the city lies not in being bashed al Gardens or in the streets they get or robbed (although this does happen) busted, 'They get arrested for looking but in being picked up by the police. ill! shabby or for having insufficient lawful "You know the police can go down to St means of support (or some damn thing). Vincent de Paul around dinner, walk in, This is a place they can go and not be and say 111 take you'and you and you. hassled. It is their place and they can do Inside the hostel they pick them up." what they like-play cards, billiards, The 139 Club is attempting to de watch TV, talk and so on," The only velop a group identity. They feel it is restrictions-not to bring in alcohol or legitimate to be in skid row and feel that use physical violence-are practical rather it is even desirable to foster e sense of than enforcing some sort of moral code. group feeling. "Groups make changes and The idea of -the club is basically "It's affect the political process. Individuals OK to be a bum," don".Ms Stephens commented. The 139 Qub is not interested in The Drop-in Centre is an old ware "rehabilitation," "For one thing we house on the bottom fiooc of Chariotte would only be duplicating already exist House. The furniture, refrigerator, TV ing services. Secondly 99 per cent of the and so on were all donated. There are no people who come here don't want lo beds and as the members have to find a change, They come in and they get tea "flop" at St Vincents m Margaret Street and sandwiches three times a day, and if or across the river at the Salvos by 6 pm they have to put up with someone the club closes up at 4 pm. "But to open trying to get them to go on the wagon the door at 9 arh, scrvie tea three times a then 1 reckon that's too expensive for day, clean up, and then shut again at 4, those crumby sandwiches. It's too high a there has to be a caretaker or someone to price to have to pay." ^ffr^txiTi''•'*•'' PageB From his cubby-hole of an office with If Government moves to discourage its views of the city beyond a muddy drinking show the same self-interest that river bank. Major Walters of the Salva higher taxes on cigarettes do, the effect tion Army dispenses mail and money will probably be similar. There will be with friendly familiarity. more money in Treasury coffers to give as- The recipients are guests at the Slava- welfare payments to new alcoholics and tion Army's Old Men's Home in Stanley theu families. Street, South Brisbane. They shuttle The Army is moving to make way for into the office from the crowd waiting Brisbane's planned Cultural Complex. oOside the open door, A few try to Arrangements were almost completed for borrow some pocket-money, but Mjr the rental of the Grand Hotel at the Walters turns them away with a friendly corner of Mary and Market Strecst hut- but firm refusal. "Sorry boys, there's at the last minute some problem arose nothing in the kitty today." with the insurance. An initial rental The building may be an old firc'rap period of two years was planned. The hopelessly overcrowded even on quiet public notice nailed to the building sug nights, but the atmosphere is more hope gests only a three year period of use, ful. According to Mjr Walters, the men from December 31,1975. stayuig at the home regard the place as Whether the Salvation Army can treat "home," More than a refuge which pro tlie Grand Hotel as an ironic but tempor vides for its guests the necessities of food ary home for its clients depends on pro and shelter, the white plastered buildmg gress on its new centre for homeless men, in Stanley Street means companionship Hopes are still high that the new centre and belonging, will be completed in two years. Negotia 12 months ago, the Salvation Army tions are still underway for a site to build Men's Home was full to capacity with on. about 100 men. The number has risen In the search for a site, central loca 'to about ISO, and the rise has meant tion and public opinion have exerted some problems at the Home, Men sleep theh influence. Suburban areas are too in old sheds outside and on the floor far from main transport routes, and too space left by beds, susceptible to fluctuations in real estate St Vincent's Mens Hostel at 227 values. Margaret St also has problem with over- The St Vincent de Paul Society also crowdmg, Beds are allotted nightly, with has a new centre planned for South Bris the unlucky ones sleeping on blankets on bane. Individual and double rooms will be the floor of the dining area. a feature, intended to provide for its Many of the men staying at hostels arc guests "a little space to call their own," receiving welfare cheques. The Salvation At the moment, many men use their Army's Home provides for many of its second-hand coats as filing cabinets for guests a necessary address, and an address all their posessions-razor, comb, hand where they know their mail will be safe sorry, boys kerchief and a few coins, until they can collect it. Dou)Schwede, of St Vincents, takes a Major Walters writes the letters of liberal view towards the police. "I person identification now required for receipt of ally think the police are very kind to are especially welcome as food is the unemployment benefits and acts as an habilitation, by those who devote much these people. The harassment is a figment hostels' biggest expenditure. Clothing is intermediary for the men with the de of their time to working with homeless of their imagination," also donated and volunteer workers arc partment of Social Security, "We're well people. Everyone agrees the immediate Mr Schwede went on to say that of the available. known at Social Security," he says with needs of people involved must be met. police he knows, "There's not one who a smile, And most admit to the dangers ui the re The Government would like to see a would.resort to kicking and bashing. The sulting welfare situation. Complacency solution to the growing problem. Tlic police do a wonderful job-these men are Woik or Strove and apathy do little to help the other Homeless Persons Advisory Committee, a hard to handle when they're drunk." six member body composed of represen On a more serious note he mentions problems of the homeless. Whatever the true situation, it seems tatives from local welfare organisations how only about a dozen of the men at That alcohol is but symptomatic of police are only unwilling scapegoats in an and State and Federal Government, has the Home have jobs. The situation is their social isolation is often recognised endless game they don't like. And the close liaison with the Federal Depart police are not the only ones who would similar at St Vmcents. Although for some by those with a drinking problem. Most ment of Social Security, prefer not to be involved, of the people involved, physical appear of them realise there is a problem, but as A cynic might attribute the Govern Society has been less than interested in ance might be a bar to some jobs, Mjr if on a treadmill, they seem stuck in a ment's willingness to resolve the question rehabilitation in the past. When half-way Walters feels employers are often sym cycle of getting drunik to forget, being as being due as much to its embarrassing houses occupied by selected alcoholics pathetic. picked up by the police, drying out, nature, as to any liberal concern. The dis have been set up in the suburbs, neigh He exhoes Jim Killen's now infamous getting drank turbing thing about homeless people is bors have been quick to complain. Peti speech on the "soft society," "The man Doug Schwede however refuses to call that they won't go away. tions circulate and fear and loathing dis that wants to work will get a job. People the situation futile, "When we reach even The present palliatives, and many of place rational humanity, need to be re-educated to the idea that one person, no matter how rarely, it the future plans seem oriented to provid "They want to be comfortable citi work is worthwhile," makes our work worthwhile." ing leper colonies that are safe and secure zens, they don't want to be disturbed," If welfare payments are counterpro His pcrsistance is admirable, but and out cf sight and mind. says Doug Schwede. "Sympathy is not ductive, some might go on to argue that trying to rehabilitate the homeless ap The alcoholism that compounds the required, involvement is. centres that look after the needs of the pears to be a frustrating business. The problems of the men and women involved Summer is coming to Brisbane once homeless have a similar effect. This reasons for the lack of progress are not as is becommg progressively worse, accord- again. This is indeed fortunate for those enlightened "work or starve" attitude clear-cut. Major Walters says that "money ing to Mjr Walters, He says the Govern who'll be sleeping in the park tonight is not too uncommon in the Deep North, is no problem," Many large firms such as ment "doesn't really want to attack al with a sherry bottle for company. Bris The sheltering from reality is somehow Tip Top and Coles give donations of food coholism at its roots-the present situa bane society is in no hurry to mvite its reconciled with long-term aims of re- to the various hostels. These donations tion's too lucrative for them," leppers in from the cold. Greg Thiele such a moral risk Homeless women often have to face funding during 1975 for.bqth Shelta and quite different and more difficult prob the Health service under the Australian lems to homeless men. According to Government community health program. Doug Schwede of St Vincents maybe one But on June 30 1976 all funding was cut eighth of the skid row population are off. women. Others contend that the propor After the Fraser Government usurped tion is much higlicr. power, the Australian Government took The woman who decides to leave her on its new policy called "New Federal husband with her children faces unique ism." The policy embraced the Com difficulties in securing accommodation. munity Health Program and in May 1976 This is why many women would rather the Austrahan Health Department gave stay "home" in a hopelessly oppressive control of the program to the States. And environment than face the humiliation the good old Queensland Government and discrimination of getting out. Desert decided not to continue funding Shelta. ed wives are often considered to be a The Queensland Government conduct "moral risk," chUdren arc a "risk to ed an investigation into WCAA and property," the shortage of cliild-care among the excuses it later, gave for centres makes getting a job a near cutting off funds was that the State impossibility and few women have an government had really been opposed to independent income of their own. Land WCAA receiving funding in the first lords may demand up to $200 bond place. The government was being con- money and rent in advance and the sup sistant in refusing to fund it now. porting mothers benefit (if she gets it) So on June 30, 20 workers at will hardly cover this let alone pay for Women's House were retrenched, and 13 food and upkeep. women and another 25 children in Shelta On May 19, 1975, Shelta opcned- now found themselves totally responsible although it was already full before the for it. official opening date. In the 11 months Although the collectives are trying to up to April this year, 125 women and work out ways to keep going money is over twice that number of children had desperately needed. The rent for Shelta stayed there. It is run by feminists from has to be paid weekly, food has to be the Women's Community Aid Association bought (and food for 25 kids isn't cheap) and there are often emergencies that and tries, without being pragmatic, to arise which can be expensive. encourage the women who go through the refuge to foster a bit of independence Women's House has been forced to as weU as being aware of their oppression, move (for economic reasons) from their WCAA helps women at Shelta to find premises in Roma Street to 31 Bartley Street, Spring Hill (ph 229 5922), Money alternate accommodation and/or a job, and volunteer workers are needed so ring Shelta is part of the multi-purpose or drop in at their new place (below the concepi of WCAA which also incorpor Tower Mill) with your ninney < r /our ates a health service, an information and time. resource service, a media collective, and the rape crisis centre, WCAA received Page? Much more seriously, if she had not at least ventured lo take a taste of life by that age. . ," Your cliches and English bred sermonising are sickening, Mi WedIQ Hallows, There is a rumour adrift that premier Wednesday was also the day that the joh needs a psychiatrist. Those, who did C-M had the "Liberals demanding probe not previously concur were probably in on raid." If they failed to get theit fluenced by Joh's statements to the point across, the Rev D.G. Skinnei Sunday Sun of a week ago, (presbyterian Minister, Kingaroy), suc "Southern interests are trying to turn ceeded in having his letter published North Queensland into the drug factory (does the post-mark help?) "A word in for Australia," he said. This is an excel favour of wowsers" concerned that as lent goal, but he went further on "the yet unseen program "Alvin Purple": cry of police brutality": "The same "Why for the sake of sensationalism names keep croppuig up-Dr Paul Wilson, should the minority of dirty-minded the Reverend Noel Preston, the Council people have the laws of decency and for Civil Liberties-and the ALP." mutual respect abolished for all?" One of this diabolical front, Rev "Hawke: the career that got away" Preston, was not at all impressed with his was the well-remembered news for fellow christian's insults, and had his Thursday, chance to air his ciriticisms on the ABC's 'You'll ^el a warped mtrtd reading this sort of rubbish. Another page one story in the Aus Frontier program. tralian was the plan to pay dairy farmers Joh also said that he "knew the type to not work their farms for 12 months. of people" who had sworn out affidavits, of people interviewed believed that If you struggled to page 50, you could There is no plan to extend this to alfalfa and he was not going to take their word marijuana (82 per cent), tobacco (83 per have read about an interesting lady, as yet. against the police. Just another example cent), and alcohol (80 per cent) were Davine Sheffield. The "extovert ex-deb," The Federal Government has already of that Queensland game of prejudging doing more harm than good (specific "dogged by the press," was referred to as made $25 million available to the dairy the outcome of a legal hearing-Val Bird questions would be helpful for a start)- the originator of the ultimate "no com industiy this year. Meanwhile Senator did the same. but 65 per cent said there should be more ment," Mai Colston had a question answered in Last week both Brisbane dailies called strict control on marijuana while only Wednesday's Australian had an all- parliament recently-the phosphate sub for an inquiry into the raid. But the Aus 48 per cent take this view on alcohol and Liberal front page, "Govt determined sidy scheme is costing $2 million a tralian's editorial on Wednesday contain 40 per cent on tobacco. not to devalue-Fraser defends dollars month. And then the Defence Depart ed the amazing statement that because On Tuesday the two dailies agreed tactics," led, beside a trite piece on ment loses $34 million worth of spares. marijuana was found, "the raid was again on the lead story, that Bob Hawke Margaret Thatcher winning hearts in the The editorial came out strongly against justified." This displays a strange sense was about to enter Federal pariiament. • tough union town of Broken Hill. the price-fixing of Victorian beer as "a of preioritics for a paper,daily calling for The C-M editorial called for a police Getting into the news, Australian negation of the principles of a private "economic saneness," and is directly mquiry—so good to see a definite opinion Motor Industries chairman, Stanley enterprise economy , ,, Mr Hamer must analogeous to bashuig people who break a expressed. It will be interesting to see if Byrne, said "industrial disputes arc part drop the whole silly idea," traffic rule, this line is maintained, or if the excuse of what is quite obviously extreme left- The '-M editorial was confusing in its Monday's Courier-Mail leader writer of "school children suffering" will be wing plans to destroy the private enter discussion of zero population growth, took the usual vacillating stand used on used later if the premier criticises the prise system and make our form of elect "Australia , , , must develop and make most issues-this time on the proposed paper. ed government unworkable," But to available its resources at a healthy rate. inquiry into the future needs of educa The Australian must be commended confuse the reader, a report on page 5 To do this an increasing population is tion. There was extensive page one cover for reminding, readers that the Thatchers outlines le^lation that the Victorian needed. Surely even the most ardent dis age for the plan to "Pay jobless to go had arrived. "Behind every woman there's government will introduce to fine super ciple of the ZPG cult would not deny where jobs are," The Australian did a man" was the front page angle, while markets or hotels which continue to sell that," Surely the "cult" followers would. Fraser justice with "New scheme to Margaret said that "there had been a cut-price beer. The Australian Hotel Two letters calling for a police inquiry answer critics," It also gave prominence fantastic increase in the Soviet navy Association complained that its members were published, but too late, for "police to Lynch's ''panel of major university (referring to the Indian Ocean) in recent could not compete with discounters. In mquiry fades with police reaction," economists," a very conservative panel years." While this may be true, the his board of inquiry report, Mr L,S, a headline of some distinction. which is likely to boos* Lynch's confi journalists should have sought some Brokenshire said that action had^to be The "biggest Army train suice 1942" dence. One member of the group gave statistical evidence for this bland state taken in the public interest to prevent was featured on page 3, Incidently, the the recent budget "nine out of ten," ment. She also said that "she would like further discounting, as the "interest of Army bought 20 huge tank transporters Monday's Australian was complete to visit a supermarket because it is the persons conducting business is not being in 1970, for a total cost of $2 million. vrith a photo of millionnaire Mai pictured best way to guage the cost of living and promoted and security and stability is They were stationed at a major supply m a racing car. Driver Allan Moffat said the country's prosperity." Sounds like not being advanced," It must be a good base in Victoria, but it was found that the "he didn't flinch." This is the man who Lynch economics. The paper's leader feeling to be able to flick over this type combined weight of truck and tank ran away from students at Monash, where writer was alarmed that Hawke should of report and not feel any outrage-when would collapse bridges on the exit high- Sneddon and others spoke to the aowd leave his presidency of the ACTU, be is the price of pies or mousetraps gomg to ways-they were never used. and apparently escaped unharmed. cause it needs "someone who speaks with be set by law? If you ever apply to make a little a voice of moderation and who is willing "Boost mining confidence, Mr Lynch" The changes to the Prices Justification money conducting the Gallop Poll, you to work towards a consensus on econom was the message in a letter from Lang Tribunal, reportedi n Friday's CM are to will find that you have to ask about 30 ic goals betvtreen labor and the Govem- Hancock, anxious to make a few more be expected from an elitest Federal questions on the "house-holders' " usage ment," million to leave to his daughter. "Making Government, The reporting obscured the of name-brand products, and only the last The Telegraph's policy of appealing to mines free of export licenses'* is a Joh fact that the 'House Upioar' was initially four concern the semi-political topic. The the workers goin^home surely need not cliche, but to "give rights to mine and prompted by the government's refusalt o other information is fed into the compu encompas slang, Tuesday's headline was security of tenure right from the dis let private members have their usual one ter banks of firms that sell names and typical: "Brides, grooms charged-Cops covery to the production stage of miner and a half houR grievane debate evidently information to mail-order firms. Obvi stop weddings," als" is simply incredible. This must be there was some apprehension that liberal ously the poll results can be colored by The next afternoon two footballers- done to "restore confidence in mining, back-benchers would criticise the level of the selection of people interviewed. appeared on the Telegraph's front page, which is the foundation on which civili unemployment. After four hours of TTiere "spirits had a sky-high boost when sation rests," Tutoring from Joh? divisions and merriment, the budget, The most recent edition of the poll they received a telegram from Mr Fraser," That's not all, John Hallows wrote a debate resumed,wit h the first opposition was published in Monday's C-M. "Most Thank christ "football fever" has sub member choosing to speak on the PIT. say 'pot,' tobacco harmful." The sample piece in remarkably bad taste: "D^nna sided again. Sheffield is an attractive woman . , Ross Peake 1 On every street in every city there's a nobody Casual taxi drivers, who dreams of being somebody. He's a lonely forgotten man desperate lo prove that he's alive. weekend and night worl help to get licence. 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FREE OEilCIOUS MEALS TO GO 40 page catalogue, now. 0 salads & JoJo'tRecordt 406 Milton Rd 60 Adams Street Binnin^iam B7 4AG G spagetti ^W e Knead Your Dough Auchenflower Engbnd Page 10 You were talking about radical social Where does this leave you with regard side the Labor Party, completely outside change. Just how radical do you see this to the Australian Labor Party? it, for quite a number of years. You could change going and what do you mean by Well, the same as it always has done. hardly get anyone in the Labor Party to this? Most of my work has been in this kind of go near it for three or four years. But by I mean whatever is necessary for indi thing. The book that we have here [OU 1970, it was hard to keep them away. But nnterview viduals to achieve their actual, real needs. on Troubled WatersI is the seventh or it essentially was a movement outside the And I don't know what is necessary. Dr Jim Claims and Ms Junie Morosi eighth one I've written. Now beyond Labor movement, and this one is too. But Sometimes it's the pamphlet, sometimes 1 would think that in five years or six visited Brisbane last week. They were in that, there are hundreds and hundreds of it's legal aid, or assistance, sometimes it's years from now, the Labor movement Brisbane for a meeting about the Alter articles, pamphlets, and, 1 suppose, a demonstration as George Jackson says will be quite thankful that somebody native Australia conference being planned thousands of meetings. That's the kind of in his book, in the United States for tried to build a bridge between it and the in Canberra during December, While here, political work I have always don?. The the black people it can either be a Vietnam Moratorium movement was out alternative society. they visited the University of Queensland silenced pistol or a pamphlet. And I think and Dr Calms gave a talk in the E,G. that the essential thing to do is to realise Whitlam Room on Friday September 10, that the establishment is against the alter Mark D. Hayes and John Woods from native and it's "The Enemy" and the ap 4ZZZ-FM spoke with Dr Cairns. propriate method for people to achieve whatever is their own real need is what Dr Cairns, what do you see as the inj- has to be worked out, and it differs from plications of the recend death of Chair- place to place, from country to country. man Mao Tse-Tung? The sort of things that have been I think that it will bring into issue in happening to people involved in the de China the two main forces that were velopment of alternatives in Nimbin and operating: that which can be identified in North Queensland seem that there is with Mao, which is to establish socialism, the potential for much more abrasion to and to fi^t what they call the Capitalist occur between the Establishment. Would Roaders, the bourgeois riders, the high this be so? and the mighty. Now, that so much was made of that indicates that its a problem, I think so, I think that without Mao was quite clear about this, and has wanting to scare anyone 1 think that been so for a number of years. Socialism what happened in the Vietnamese villages is not yet established in China, What in South Vietnam from 1955 onwards, elimination of the capitalist control of that great "critic" of the Vietnamese war, the means of production meant was that Denis Warner happened to write in his there was an opportunity, the necessary book The Last Confucian in Chapter 8 a conditions for the establishment of social very accurate picture of what happened ism. But he made it quite clear that in a fictitious village, XP village, and I'm socialism wasn't estabUshed in China, as quite sure that the people at Nimbin, distinct from socialist societies in a num and up there north of Cairns, if they read ber of other countries, pointing to the that chapter would realise the similariteis eight or more different wage levels in between their own position and the posi China, pointing to the personal interest tion of those Vietnamese farmers in that that motivates producers in a great many village. areas, still in an unchanged way. Now, So you think that we in Australia Mao wants to create a new society, and could learn from Vietnam as well as from all that he stood for was directed at a new South Africa and what's happening there society and creating new people, perhaps now? for the first time in human liistory. No I think we can learn a tremendous one has had so great an influence in his amount from Vietnam. I think that lifetime as Mao has had, but there vUlage showed that the essentia! thing to must be many people in China, in" the do was to identify the genuine real needs bureaucracy, in the army and elsewhere, of the people, not to try to impose them who, in effect, look to the capitalist from the top saying "These are your road, who want a status society, one needs, let's go out and work for these," Revolutionary but if it came from the people in the vil where they can get above other people. You've said that alternative ways of You made mention of the fact lage, that's the first thing. What wc do has This must be there, and that, I think, is living will be forced upon us in the next that the Labor Party was possibly to be related to the true needs of the the main issue, the main implication of few years. What do you mean by "al damaged by the way your name was people concerned. Secondly, you have Mao's death, for as long as Mao was alive, ternative" and what do you mean by dragged through the press. what he stood for was the important then to join together with people with "forced"? similar true needs, not necessarily identi Everything that happens has both thing, would have had a tremendous First of all, 1 think that the aliena opponents and supporters. Whatever it is, weight from him. His death now takes a cal ones but similar ones. What one can't tion, which is the most significant prob do, two can do, two can't do, 10 can do A good many people would have sup very great weight from that position and lem, the isolation of the individual, the ported me for the stand I took about his death makes me feel sad and I feel a and what 10 can't do, 100 can do. If you fact that he has no ability, really to iden have enough unity and understanding, Juni. Now how they add up I haven't sort of personal loss, mainly because he is tify and to exercise his real peeds. His the faintest idea, and an election is not there to,help this development. It without any risk or force, you can needs are created by him by an external achieve that objective. determined by a complex of things, and needs help. force. The alienation that this produces, if, in a situation like that where the media Where would you see the established the loneliness, the separation, the isola is predominantly and from the top fully political parties, such as the Labor Party tion that this produces in the community committed against the Labor Party, if Now, you're in Brisbane at the mora- and the Liberal Party and so on, working is something that everyone knows, and is they don't have one factor to use against ent to talk about an Alternative Australia hi with some sort of alternative group, as going to Jo something about, many are us, they'll find another. And it's impos Conference. What are the aims, the pur- you've proposed? gping to do something about it. Secondly, sible for any one active in politics not to poses of this conference group? want to provide from time to time reasons that the media can use in this JohnWoods and MarkDHayes way, quite impossible I feel sure that in Australia at the In the introduction to your latest moment there is a movement of people, book "Oil on Troubled Waters" you men a community of people working for radi ialk with Jim Cairns tioned the necessary process that was cal social change. Now that community involved m your loyalty to Juni Morose consists of many people who identify in the coursp of what you termed the their own needs reasonably well, who "insinuation campaign" tlTlat was carried make the starting pont of their own I don't know. Up to now, I don't think, unfortunately, the Labor move out agamst the pair of you in the press, needs, who have escaped, therefore, the the violence that is generated in the To what extent have you been embittered influence of the socialisation process that ment is very much in touch with this industrial, competitive acquisitive society, alternative movement, community, that 1 by that? has'produced the hegemony that domi moe extreme in the United States than 1 don't know that that's the word at nates the rest of the community. Now, see around. Certainly, the Liberal Party is anywhere else, is also going to mean that opposed to it. The Liberal Party is "The all. Personally, it doesn't have the.kind of these people are in many different people are going to be compelled, com an effect on me. It's something that I groups, some of those groups are convinc Enemy." The Countiy Party is further munities will be compelled to do some more "The Enemy" than that,.It's wrong understood fairly well before. It was ed that only their way is the way to an thing about. Ttie exhaustion of termin worse; more continuous than I expected alternative, to a new society. Whereas, to imagine that this is our authority and able resources, the dangers that are in it's out government. It's not, it's theirs, it to be, that's all. there's a fair degree of truth in that -for volved in nuclear energy, all these things Also, in the introduction to your each one of them, but unless we can find and wc cannot expect anything from are creating a deepening crisis that them. Now, the Labor Party ought to be you suggested, in fact you claimed that some commonality among them all capitalism all around the world possesses, the real power lies outside parliament in they're going to be weaker for that effect. open to this. I think that insofar as in which analysts of capitalism are in people begin to see that there is a limit this country. Surely that's a denial of My main purpose is to try to see if there creasingly recognising. Now there are two your own career, and that's a very contro is a community, get them together, see to growth, there's a limit to what rising ways of going about this; money income can do, that is beneficial versial thing to say in terms of Labor if we can get them to see the com One the kind of way that people from Party policy and the thoughts of most monality that I'm sure is there so that and much of it is already very harmful, Robert Heilbruner to B,F, Skinner have as more and more people realise this, the ALP supporters? they cari help one another. We know recognised, that authoritarianism will in Of course ifs controversial, but I what's been happening here in Queens influence of narrow trade unionism which crease, a paternal authority that must has dominated the Labor Party in Austra have never hesitated in tr>ing to make land, up near Cairns, we know what's have authority pretending it's in the people think by avoiding controversial been happening in Nimbin, wc know lia, concerned with money and job con public interest to solve these crisis ditions and so forth, concerned only issues. It's very different to make people what Jiappens to anyone who makes any problems. That means fascism. And for think and you have lo be conlrovcrsial departure from the established way of with, in some senses what trade union anyone who is resisting that trend, officials call the issues. When this is seen sometimes to do that. But, even for that conforming. Those of us who are moving fascism is already here, in the United purpose. But, of course it was necessary along that road to radical change need to to have disappointing results, as it is in States especially, and in Australia margin creasingly being seen as being, it will be to say this. Of coiuse anyone knows that work together, need to help one another, ally, as anyone who resists it, anyone who theLabor movement never has any basic to assist, need to understand. Now, 1 realised that wc have to go into the field is identified by the EstabHshment as an of what 1 call "individual authenticity," power, Every society lias a ruling class, think that there is a potential community opponent, will realise from liis own ex and every society's ruling chjss are those there, and my idea of suggesting that we both in the«individual and his relations perience, fascism is already there. Now,! with other people, once we see that the who own and control the means "of pro had a conference in Canberra at the end think it's most important to see the only duction. Now, it's a fiction lo think that of the year was first of all to get people significant thing is social relations and not alternative there is. There's the alternative economic growth or money, which is the ordinary citlxen has equal power with together, from all over Australia. We've of developing what I would think could the owner of a television network or the had about 1500 people attending mect- what the pioneers of the movement in the well be called "Viable Enclaves" of alter 19th century said it really was, both on chairman of Bill' or the general manager uigs in Fremantlc, Melbourne, Sydney, native needs and alternative rights, grow of an International bank. It's ridiculous Canberra, in Brisbane, Adelaide and Tas the revolutionary and the democratic ing from these situations, either geogra side, .social democratic side, I think the to iniiiginc that there is equal power in mania as well, but many other places like phically or groups elsewhere, growing, this, atui that .the ordinary people Ifave Ballarat and Wollongong. It has already Labor movement will become more open growing, growing, until finally there was to this concern with this new area of very little power. They can resist things led to people getting together crossing the enough of it to change the quality of but there i.s not much way in which they lines between one alternative group und sficial relations, work democracy, the thul society, I think that's the only hope establishment of viable alternative net can actually oiV-rate, use power in a situ another, and that's what I want lo see- there is to sustain a society that has ation. Now it's necessarj' lor the Labor happening. It's a process of coming works within the capitalist, non-sustain gone through capitalist, or any other sort able, destructive society, inoveiiient to realise this. We live in a together, • of industrialisation actually. fool's paradise if wcdo this. Page 11 I cmmu ClonT twy you come I BA^K-'tllOU^HTOE Unvironment miss ABOUnHE.^lfO'... BRISBANE'S FIRST HEALTH FOOD RESTAURANT ANDCOFFEE LOUNGE Situated In: ELIZABETH ARCADE Ellzatieth Street, CreenlesinP ThsCity, I woke up this morning and, as usual, was tempted not to get up. Houn: 7am-11pnn But 1 did get up, and headed bleary eyed via front steps to toilet and MONDAY-TUESDAY other getting up type activity. Opening the door-the SGIO had.gone! 7am-12 midnight Opening my eyes as well I began to make it out-it was still there, ob FRIDAY & SATURDAY 12 noon-12 midnight scured by only one and a half miles worth of smog. SUNDAY Later-now I've sat down to write' Specialisation, Growth, Centralised Power ethics and cultural standards; they are this article-I got to thinking about and fascination with achievements of regressive from an ecological standpoint. how in years past I would have become smart-ass technology like the Aswan Dam For they undermine the viability of the worked up about the smog-„How and Concorde, And this was not all. They planet and all life on it. It cannot be come the government permits such seemed to have a model of social develop emphasised too strongly that the anar pollution-even though there are laws to ment similar in many respects to the ideo chist concepts of a balanced community, control it?" and "Why aren't companies logy of liberal capitalism: that society a facc-to-face democracy, a humanistic forced to pay to control their waste out should be organised for maximum technology and a decentralised society put?" etc. But I had since come to real production, with the products themselves are not only desirable, they are also 3i Pasadonna ise that governments are neither genuine being the principal rewards, offered as necessary. They belong not only to the ly interested nor responsive enough to compensation for the "inevitable" aliena great vision of the future of humanity, prevent environmental problems and cor tion of life and work in an industrial they also constitute the preconditions Coffee porations have much higher. priorities economy. Of course, under these tough for human survival. than harmony with the environment. and-realistic forms of socialism, distri It has become obvious to many that The smog had become just one symptom bution would be fairer, work safer, pro there were no technical or economic I Lounge of a social system 1 had become determin ducts more rational, and public services reasons why decentralised, participatory ed (with rising and falling passion) to better. This was not .in question. But the producer- and consumer-control produc g RaMWtlOHU.Y struggle against. basic separation of production and corn- tion systems could not be set up which sumption, the assumption of alienaation- HOT AND COLD Well, that's a bit unspecific-like, how would be quite effective in providing all do you struggle and what for? What arc with-compensation and technocratic the necessities and a good deal more. DRINKS. SNAdCI you going to create to replace our fucked criteria for social priorities, was broadly Unfortunately the unleashing of imagina ft LIGHT HKMM system? And how? And where do you fit the same as liberaJ capitalism. Even the tion and energy needed to create such in ecological principles? projected future was similar. Provided wc systems and to convince people they arc That's basically what the Radical all worked hard and behaved ourselves, possible, desirable and necessary didn't Ecology Occasion at Paddington Hall in eventually a state would arrive in which really come out of the discussion on y^aSi early September was about. And the machines would take over the work and Anarchy and Ecology at the Occasion Radical Ecology Occasion is basically we would all be "free." (though activity resulted from other why I started to write this blurb. You But the other great stream of socialist workshops). We didn't really evolve any (CLOtEOTUESOAY) know, to tell everyone that lots of people thought, re'prcsented by the anarchists new projects to carry on the struggle. came (150) and lots of workshops and and Utopians, looked at things quite dif Some people supported their publicist discussions were held (monopohes, nucle ferently. Some people found it hard to activity/awareness-raising approach ar power, packaging, feminism and take theni seriously at first. They believed (broadsheets, publications etc). Others ecology, the Brisbane Port development, that the subtle human satisfaction should (including me) argue that this tactic of alternative technology.. .) and we had an be given priority over production re explaining to people they're oppressed amazing vegetarian feast followed by a quirements; that life should be satisfying -of illustrating the gap between what is really "together" dance. in all its aspects; that power should flow and what could be-is of limited value, But you missed all that and "there's from below; that the action is not all in I'd argue that most people suppress their toowong no use wading about in slopped por the city; that production and consump awareness of part or all of their oppres ridge." (If you didn't miss that you don't tion need not be segregated in the factory sion in order to live with it. In practical need to be told about it.) I think it'd be and the home, but could be fused again in terms I'd suggest that projects such as coin-op of more lasting relevance to talk about a the community; that revolutions are born co-ops and rural communes with political theme that seemed to underly the dis of hope, not despair. perspective can be more successful in laundrette cussion-well, at least, ail of the discus- Searching out books you find that encouraging people to break out of their ^ons I took part in. anarchism hasn't just been a stream of "false consciousness," to see the world 8 Sherwood Road For both ecological balance and free thought. There are many examples of afresh and gain both the confidence (Next Goodes Cakes) dom societies will have to be created local or regional economy run by anarch and the opportunities to regain control where mdividuals have control over their ist collectives. But the opponents of over their lives. To change society down * Self Service or Bag Wash done lives and collective activity. Such societies anarchism-liberals, rightist, and authori to the roots the majority of people have * Concession Rate to Students would have not interest in destroying tarian "leftists" have been quite success to want it to change and to fight for their desires. on Service Wash their regional environment, nor the power ful in crushing or helping others to cursh to destroy that of others. They could such activity. Their historians write as if So the Radical Ecology Occasion * Dry Qeaning/^oe Repair respond sensitively to the changes they anarchist societies never existed and then won't be remembered for producing * Mending & Ironing Servke did effect in their environment. Such their theoreticians argue that they are the comprehensive strategies. But the con voice of historical reality ("reality"), that * Open 7 days a week societies would be organised without the tacts and friendships, ideas and plans intrusions of authoritarian elements. their notions are rooted in the "objec from the Occasion should prove very Attendant present Individuals and groups would, through tive," "realistic" worid. valuable. And if for nothuig else 111 their common interest and in recognition 8am • 12.30pin Mon-Fri Time (as opposed to "history") is remember the Occasion for the piece in of the others' right to self-determination, not very kind to this conflict of ideas the video on the street farmers-a London join together in support and co-operation and practice, Wi^atever may have been group with a self-explanatory name, A for production and interchaiige and to the validity of non-Ubertariap views, street fanner walked across the screen satisfy and enhance their material and virtually all objections to anarchist with a giant voice buble saying 9both the non-maferial needs, (Phew!) To create thought have been rendered meaningless bubble and the street farmer): "Bite the such societies we have a long struggle today. The modem city and state, the hand that feeds you." ahead-"a struggle that all may live this massive technology of industrialisation Andrew Phillips rich, overflowing life." And, if the way vrith its "rationalised" systems of mass- (For those who didn't pick the massive we organise to fight and create is consis production and tightly controlled organi plagarisms, a lot of this rave was borrow tent with our (stated) ends, (take note sation of labor, the centralised nation, ed from p 8 of "Radical Technology" ed vanguardists of all color-look at your the state ahd its bureaucratic apparatus- P, Harper & G. Boyle and from "Ecology life) you can "be sure that in doing so all are beyond their limits. Whatever and Revolutionary Thought" written by you will find a.happiness that nothing progressive or liberatory role they may Murray Bookchin hi eariy 1965. else can give" (Kropotkin). have possessed, they have now become (If you're interested in activity gener Just tc relate this rave to jargon you entirely regressive and oppressive. They ated by the Occasion contact Friends of may have been put off by-these ideas are are regressive not only because they erode the Earth ph 44 1766, wholl be able to libertarian or anarchist (in the sense of the human spirit and drain the communi put you in touch with the groups that "without rules"-not in the sense of ty of all its cohesiveness, solidarity, interest you,) "chaotic"), and the practice is anarchism, -'••' self-management and/or libertarian social ism (coined so people wouldn't have to call themselves anarchists!). Now, back to earth, what does all this mean? t anticipate perplexed eyes looking at this type and thinking "it doesn't "Last time I was at quite click" or scoffing and sceptical eyes tiie CURRY SHOP, intoning that it's both not possible and it WAS liotlfH" not an adequate theory/practice. So, in anticipation, I thought I'd borrow heavily SCHONELL DRIVE from two pieces reprinted for the Occa , ST. LUCIA sion that elaborate better than I could. Most of the people at the Occasion Beef, vegetable, prawn, supporting the ideas above have needed chicken curries, to eat little persuading that capitalism has to go. in or take away. Yet, many of the things wc felt were Take away curries: most wrong in capitalist society were heartily approved pf by many others who $2.00 called themselves socialists or commun Otherwise $2.60 ists. In some way or other, we began to realise that there arc two great streams of socialist thought. One, represented by 5:30 on Marxists and Social Democrats, however deep its disagreement with capitalism, at least shared its rational, materialist wed^^sun values of Progress, Science, Efficiency, Page 12 ALMONDS BRIS8ANEV FIRST HEALTH FOOD Put your money wkere your mouth is. RESTAURANT ANDCOFFEE LOUNOE Man to Thun 12.00-2.30 AUS Friendly Society student dental scheme. e.00-0.30 eittKtWin: ELIZABETH ARCADE Ellzibtth Stmt, For details ask at your Students Assoc/Union/Guild or write to 97 Drummond St Carlton 3053 Fridty The Cltv. 12.00-2.30 Sttuidt'y 6.00^10.30 6.00-10.30 Page 13 Try- Mfts records rodo tomary exuberance and technical excel The Queensland Music Broadcasting lence, which gives me the perfect excuse "Young And Rich" Society is a co-operative society with to comment on their wonderfully moving THE TUBES something like SO initial members, a num Brisbane concert. A&M Label L 35892 ber of directors, and a constitution- There was no trace of showbiz pizzazz adopted in accordance with the Compan nor was there need for any. The camara ies Act, and varried to take account of derie, their audience rapport and the the particular nature of the society, rollicking vitality of the music said it all. which is a non-profit making body. The If you failed to catch the Chieftams at On stage, the Tubes use various multi basic aim of the society is to set up a the City Hall, you missed a band without media tricks to express their campy frequency modulating radio station, parallel. comic vulgarity, mixing sc4id rock with which will broadcast "fine music"; more oddball characterisations like Dr Strange- specifically "classical" music, together kiss and glitter king Quay Lewd, This with a very considerable proportion of second record, produced by Ken Scott, jazz, ft is expected that there will also be "Silly Sisters" . captures their essence more honesUy then musical educational programs, and that MADDY PRIOR & JUNE TABOR "Frampton Cornes Alive' the first, but weak moments still exist. recorded performances by local artists Chrysalis Label L 35829 PETER FRAMPTON Best tracks are the Stones-influenced will be a feature of the station's services. A&M Label "Tubes Worid Tour," "Don't Touch Me Such a station would provide a broadcast There," a soft porn teen ballad in the Steeleye Span's glorious Maddy Prior L 45655/6 ing service complementary to Brisbane's image of Phil Spector, and "Pround To and the unknown, but equally glorious expanding range of musical activities. Be An American," cashing in on birthday June Tabor team up for some temporary The feasibility of such a scheme has patriotism with a '5 Dish Elvis Copy, The dueling, ^d the union is little short of Live albums rarely supersede studio been demonstrated by the success of the rest, though well-handled and novel, tend magnificent-a sublime collection of originals, but "Comes Alive" is a welcome station 2MBS-FM in Sydney, QMBS has, to fall short of the mark. English traditional folk. Ably backed by exception. The self-assurance lacking in through liaison, drawn directly on the ex Unlike other rock outrage bands, the perience of 2MBS-FM, so there should be such stalwarts as Danny Thompson, earlier albums abounds here, reflecting Martin Carthy and others, the duo pro Frampton's own response to audience Tubes produce credible music to support no foreseeable teething problems. Fin their stage act. This album is no substi- ance for the project will depend mainly duce sensuous, tingling grass roots music, acceptance. He had made it after five instru mentally sparse but rich vocally, hard years, and it meant more than when tue for a live show, but as that is unlikely on public subscription (estimated at $25 to appear, it provides plenty to satisfy. a year. Subscribers will receive a regular A pure acoustic record, much use is he was in the Herd or Humble Pie, detailed program guide), though one made of their unaccompanied voices. It The pivot of a Frampton concert is should expect a fair amount of support is impossible to believe that the precise where he exchanges acoustic guitar for a from government and private sources. magic of "Four Loom Weaver" was Gibson, marked here by the crowd's Costs will be cut through the use of vol achieved with only one take. The duet on uproar after "Penny For Your unteers in all fields-programming, an "My Husband's Got No Courage In Him" Thoughts," From there, it's onward and nouncing, musical, administrative, techni is just as exceptional. The only dis upward. His guitar is stylish not heavy, cal, financial, legal, and architectural. A appointment is the realisation that they his rock loud but not hard-headed, brim basic body of volunteen in these fields is may never record together again. ming with smooth polished runs. Nearly already active. all tracks draw upon his four studio albums and the climactic fourth side in The desirability of an FM radio sta cludes the showstopper "Do You Feel tion broadcasting fine music in the Bris Like We Do," utilising a talk box vrith bane area is fairly obvious. The ABC, it 'The Chieftains 4" fluency and humor. Also here is liis now appears, will not be coming into FM regular encore, "Jumping Jack Flash." broadcasting In Brisbane in the foresee THE CHIEFTAINS able future. The ABC AM service in this Interfusion Label L 35584 This set is easily his most compelling field is valuable, though limited because release to date. With sales exceeding three of the ABC's other kinds of obligations. Some weeks ago, the fifth album of million, 1976 is definitely Frampton's When QMBS-FM is operating, and parti this extroadinary Irish fold was reviewed. year. culariy when it it operating on maximum Also available is this aptly named fourth broadcasting time, the prospects for pro album. Like its partner, it is a sheer joy, gramming are virtually as limitless as the from the bodhran openmg of "Drowsey imagination of programmers who make Maggie" to the closing strains of "The them-intensive surveys of specific com Weaver." Again, I should mention the posers and periods; more operas and long delights of their plaving, done with cus er choral works than the ABC offers; "theme" programs; illustrated talks and discussions by Brisbane's musical experts; many high-quality tapes from US and r European music festivals (readily avail able to us through consulates and 2MBS- FM); and of course more jazz than the Whipping Post — East Timor ABC provides. People involved so far in QMBS are Ray Carmichael from the Queensland Conservatorium of So far, my Premier, Music, the Music Department, UQ, the I've dodged the batons of your police Queensland Opera Company, Musica The Whipping Post is a peak, so far, But you can't chop up and it seems there is no say there. Viva, leading figures from Brisbane's jazz in the poet's outrage and conviction, invisible men, Your law and order fraternity, 4ZZZ-FM classical music pro- Ti follows the admission by Joh and invisible men orders every law. gramers, as well as those previously BJelke^etersen, that he encouraged the sent the victims And IVe seen buearucrats mentioned. Everything depends, of invasion of East Thhor. to the lash on every side course, on obtaining a broadcasting Other poems of the Timor Campaign thousands of miles away. who may as well be license. To this end we have already taken will follow in future issues, including But something does remain. working for each other. the crucial step of sending a submission Incommunicado, the first of the poems The tradition. Right becomes left to the Government Inquiry into Broad which was published in Semper Floreat, left ri^t casting,- We have also notified relevant in March. Almost yesterday and all of them are up the center. State and Federal authorities of our in Incommunicado was written foUowing the Premier of the State I hate the lot tentions, and received some encourage the seizure in Darwhi of a radio trans reversed the order of the lash and love humanity. and he became the invisible man, ment. However, strong public support is mitter by Federal Government authori And I dare you, Premier ' also crucial here. If. anyone wants to be ties, an attempt to close a communication helped guide the lash to an array of hands Joh Bjelke-Petersen come involved, or simply as potential link between Australia and Fretilin. The and all agreed the whipping post would be to put a brand on me. subscribers want more information, con poem received wide publicity on ABC East Timor. tact: and other radio and television coverage. And it is unfair The Secretary, Ray Carmichael is currently reading East Timor, where our own have fallen. to you and mc What a tricky man Queensland Music Broad casting Society his time poems at citizena' activity we cannot battle to the death is my Premier, PO Box 41 groups, building up necessary support for as we would in Timor. Toowong 4066 a public readhig at Brisbane City Square, to speak for Uic State, or tiie Nation or What are our rules? to hiclude The Whippbig post. the worid I think we can duel. the poet can be contacted at when saying "we"-"we" ov/e gratitude We've bought into a war 106 Kingabury Street, for an invasion. and we shouldn't have exception Norman Park 4170 Or is he perhaps as long as we have weapons. something of a king behind the lash? Your weapon's politics, The Whippbig Post And there is a risk, I'm told, niine'a poetry, in talkhig back- and here is where tiiey've cheered the Up by the red cliffs and down by the sea for socialist, a mental whip, politicians, the convicts came to Queensland for communists the rack, sneered at,poets. and so many chains were there to stay and the top man of the State But cheering or sneering dropped in a field for fresh links, can name your name, III tell whatever crowd is there blisters and blood in the soil for the keen edge of heaven IVe challenged you to duel left to be museum pieces is privilege and hurl your name across the city a hundred years away and the man of God's in Jiis heaven, square, but nothing remained all's Right with the world, let people hear the brilliance of a of the lash, of the cuises and prayeis . all's wrong with the Left, politician, where each chest hugged the post, the cunning of a murderer in absentia, nothing was saved but the post Have you heard the news, my Premier? and then the post was gone. The whippbig post is there, Up by the red cliffs and down by the sea but they refuse to take the lash tile wind blows in across the bay. The whipping post though God knows you've encouraged all It blows where the whipping post used to was in a diurchyard (he odds. be. and when the reverend Odds like wives and sweethearts, sisters, It blows where our fathers made history. was approached burnt with cigarette butts, ° Where we shiver with guilt for the to save the evidence of the lash men held to the flame, memory. posterity suffered. genitals pouted with alcohol, Though it blows through the churchyard Cio on. Name my name, Please name my The post was evil. every day name. So it was chopped up. the stench of the thing remains. Page 14 BBS phys main constant, serious and well defined Dame Nellie Melba's "silvery" soprano in contrast to the often "historically voice, iron will and vital uncompromising perverse and exaggerated" portrayal of personality are the basis of Jack Hib- the other characters. The audience is non berd's latest attempt to "intermingle plussed by this inconsistency and approx celebration with satire, fun with gravity, imation. fiction with information, ignorance with Undoubtedly the greatest disappoint politics (and] song with poetry," He has ment of the production is the set. Its taken a legendary figure "mythically description hovers between ostentatious implanted in the nations' consciousness" and ignominious. Ostentatious for its use and presented the events of her life ina a of chandeliers, red drapes, red pelmets series of sketches bound together by sandstone, marble and more. Ignominious direct, personal narrations in the overall because of its disregard for a section of style of a yam. the audience unfortunate enougli to be There are 28 characters in the play seated towards the aisle of the left side sonic vmtten strictiy as caricatures, of the auditorium. Apparently set others as more reverently defined changes were occuring by way of objects characters, being lowered and raiscd-these were Hibberd originally intended tliat eight unseen by the unfortunate few. Often actors take on multi-roles, thus making characters would disappear completely, up the 28-only Mclba remains constant, leaving only their muffled oration-sight TTie reappearance of actors in a series of lines were a chagrin. roles gives the play its feel of a yam, of The actors by constrast were well storytelling, of playacting in a felicitous directed, emboldening them to exude the fashion." talent that, in the past, has been stified, The QTC, presently staging "A Toast Geraldine Turner as Melba was force to Melba" at the SGIO has engaged a cast ful and convincing. She displayed a fine of 12-the/role of Mclba going to former voice, a flair for the comic and a control QTC member, Geraldine Turner, (You of the dramatic. might remember her from "Lock Up Of the remaining 27 characters the Your Daughters" staged at SGIO in 1972, most memorable performances were given Or perhaps as Mick Mannuigs' secretary by Peter Kowitz as John Lemmone Lindy Jones in "The Box.") Alan (Nellie's manager and friend), Ken edwards' use of 12 acters rather than the Kennett as Oscar Wilde, Bruce Pall as 8 originally intended detracts from that George Lupton (Ellocution master), sense of comic pretence and story tell Gaye Poole as The Girl and Ian Dyson as ing by allowing some characters to rc- Charles Armstrong (Nellie's husband). books 'COLLABORATORS' with which the autarch will eventually by John Mortimer. Diretned by George Roberts pacify the worid. Not as sinister as the It must be said, however, that union of man and animal Lindsay Ander A domestic comedy drama an unprofessional feeling of enthus son presents in "0 Lucky Man" but more iasm oozed from all four players, likely and realistic. giving file performance an obscure Which brings us to reality. This The Arts Theatre has once quality which sums itself up as en scenario is perhaps the most likely 1 again staged a fine play, The Collab joyment as the curtain fails. have come across. The sobering fact is orators by John Mortimor in a less that WD do not know what is going on in than competent way The product the CBW (Chemical and Biological War ion fails to capture the beauty, fare) research stations around the worid, humour and wit of Mortimor's lang and the likelihood of a Formula 10 and uage and reduces it to a long verbal its debilitating effects on a population supply of boidom. being used is a very high one. Tlic Collaborators is the story An entertaining and worthwhile novel. of a barrister cum radio-play writer, Mark D. Hayes competently piayed by Murray Cullen and his wife, a hypertensive, scornful woman played ovcrambit- iously by Diannc Eden. The marr "HUNGER" iage is intruded upon by an Amer Knut Hamsun ican film producer 'attempted' by Pan Books London 1967. Stuart Bcavis, and a hopeful young articled clerk whose infatuation with the husband acts as yet anoth "Hunger by Knut Hamsura was er point of contention, abuse and The Black Theatre of Prague "OPERATION PAX" written in 1890, It has been retranslated enjoyment for husband and wife. has complimented yet another sect Michael Innes by Robert Bly and issued in a new The play concerns itself with the ion of the community (the lucky Pengmn Harmondsworth 1975 $2.10 edition by Pan Books, binding factors of marriage, with few who saw their latest-production children, debts, private ambition, Knut Hamsun won the Nobel Prize in at Her Majesty's) by presenting a past failure and forgotten aspir 1920 after having a number of books and performance worthy of as many ations, Co//fl6orafors is set in Lon once upon a time, Heroert G. WeUs plays published. He remarked, on hearing favourable superiatives as one might don in the I950's and first perform wrote a book called "The Island of Dr of his prize, that he would use the money wish to recall. A powerful use of ed there three years ago, Mordu," The basic model of this work to improve his flower garden. mime; an unending delivery of im was that an insane doctor had set him This book tells of the advantures of a Mortimor, himself a barrister, agination and talent; a sensitivity self up on an island and was busy vivi nameless young man in a Norweigan city. has written extensively for stage, coupled with a power to shock, all secting various animals and people, re He is not very successful and goes television and screen;his most well- go to make up a performance ooz- constructing them, and lettmg them loose through the torture of days of starvation known play in Australia being with enchantment and force. Their to make life complicated for the ship described at great length and with atten Voyage Round My Father. interpretation of the 'Power of wrecked Englishmen who have the mis tion to every detail-physical and mental. George Roberts, the director Love' had all the impact of the fortune to land on the island. Or so it It is an uncomfortabel book and has unfortunately satisfied himself Romantic period in art, leaving out goes, sort of,,. should only be read with a full stomach with what can be described as a the sentimentality and including This scenario has been repeated again, or the graphic depiction of hunger will shabby that '11 do' attitude to the the stark realism of Munch, The with varying degrees of success and vari send you scurrying for the kitchen. production as a whole ,...the set group possessed the power to use ations over the intervemng period, until More disturbing are the psychological ef is the most obvious example of his the stage as a huge mobile, reflect it became a reality. The secluded sani- fects of the hero's starvation: hallucina attitude, made up of 'bits and ing off and reacting to the ever torium, with an old persons' clinic or tions, fantasising, even the belief that he pieces' and giving the appearance moving tones of the performance, detojtification centre for wealthy winos •is going mad. He wanders the streets of a timeless room. • - • as a front, is actuaUy a centre for, rer. talking to himself or passersby;.sleep$ on moviiig the violent parts of the hum»n park, benches; torments strolling ladies —Maria Rinaudo Spirit, From time to time, usually very and has the inevitable run-ins with the V short intervals, friends, or associates or law. completely unknown people disappear. There seems to be no reason why the The detective, feeling decidedly lonely fellow cannot get a job but -he is driven and somewhat peeved, begins to piece by the desire to write. Although he has "VERY GOOD, JEEVESl" together his clues, and get involved, occasional pieces in the newspaper the P.G. Wodehouse, able, like Aunt Agatha the Old Relative, who would have Bertie in the employ of eventually in the regulation shoot out or pay is meagre and he must pawn his Penguin Harmondsworth 1975 vicious destruction of the clinic, its clothes in order to cat. Landladies throw puritanical cabinet ministers; jolly like founder and its stock of creations. him out because he cannot pay the rent. Aunt Dahlia or dopey like Rosie M. Here is another Wodehouse book on Banks who "writes heart-throb fiction for He is owed money by acquauitances all your favorite know-all butler, Jeeves, You This is what "Operation Pax" is over town but is too shy to ask for it. the masses." about. would need to be a real Jeeves fan to Hamsun has his protagonist escape enjoy the book. It contains 11 chapters, Though this is a variation on a rather from an intolerable situation by inpul- Tiiere must be people who ;iolually well worn theme, it is ultimately a suc each with a different Jeeves yarn. In each like reading about the doing.s of the sively signing onto a Russian ship bound chapter Jeeves carries out a clever plan to cessful theme, Tlie plot, particulariy for Leeds. The book has a universal rele Britisli upper classes, Wodehouse chums thei closing stages, is racy and genuinely save the Young Master, Bertie Woostcr, out the stuff for them. Nothing too vance for it expresses disaffection and iso from a terrible fate, usually without his suspcnseful, as the main diameters steal awful happens, the tone is light-iicarted lation from the mainstream of society. permission or encouragement. over the grounds of the sanitorium and Such feelings do not belong only to the and jolly hockey sticks. Sheer excapism track down the wife and young child of poor, the sensitive and the creative indi Characters arc stereotyped. Bertie and for people who want to see only the another major player. The stijfy is based viduals of our modem world. They have his mates arc the yount toffs about surface of the pond and arc afraid to stir around Oxford, and the Bodleian Library been with us always, town, usually sproting monocles or up the muck at the bottom. and Formula 10. Though it is not made V, Ailsa Redman moustaches. Women are eitlier formid V, Ailsa Kc ••••y;-"' -: SHE-ONEfTlrlypii : ; ' with tile _ Melbburnc^^''4itj>^| •. 1 "council proiiilJltiiig women(r%l'.^,^j^'-j^^ Sow«tbVa!iabuitiDriahame Page 14